Do Mconf ao Vale Do Mconf: topografias poéticas em um sistema de webconferência em meio à pandemia

Abstract

In this essay, we present the collective writing path on a web conference system called Mconf, between April and July 2020, months in which Brazil was faced with the exponential growth of the pandemic related to Covid-19. Amidst the beginning of social distance, together with the suspension of classes and the subsequent adherence to Emergency Remote Education, a group formed by 25 masters and doctoral students from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul met around a seminar held extracurricularly and in a virtual way, focused on the theme of poetry and its ethical-political implications in the academic context. We now refer to Mconf as Mconf Valley in an attempt to translate the strangeness and enchantment to which we were subjected in our first experience in remote education. In order to sustain the power of collective writing in virtual mode, fragments of shared notes are presented, a resource in which the participants write in a collaborative and unidentified way. Although we have lived an important experience of virtual coexistence, we read that it does not replace the burning desire that the classes will again behave in the warmth of presence, where we can further activate our poetic opportunities. © 2021 Curriculo sem Fronteiras. All rights reserved.